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Is it not now admitting that he is himself an enemy, when
he does not dare to make a motion respecting a man who is leading an army
against him while he is consul? For it is perfectly plain that one of the two
must be an enemy; nor is it possible to come to a different decision respecting
adverse generals. If then Caius. Caesar be an enemy, why does the consul submit
no motion to the senate? If he does not deserve to be branded by the senate,
then what can the consul say, who, by his silence respecting him, has confessed
that he himself is an enemy? In his edicts he styles him Spartacus, while in the
senate he does not venture to call him even a bad citizen.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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